Chelato Uclés
Drew games against: Costa Rica, and Guatemala, lost against El Salvador national team and won the remaining encounters.
In this tournament Honduras had as its rivals the following teams: Mexico, El Salvador, Haiti, Cuba and Canada.
This signified the elimination of the Mexicans from the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and El Salvador would accompany Honduras to Spain.
For the World Cup, Chelato included in the staff two important players who did not participate in the final qualifying round: Gilberto Yearwood who at the time was playing in Spain, and high-scoring player: Porfirio Betancourt in substitution of Jimmy James Bailey who suffered a severe injury.
But this did not last long, because on June 16 in its first game, played at stadium Luís Casanova of Valencia; Honduras showed great skills against Spain.
In the end; the tie was achieved by the Spaniards through a penalty kick; charged by the Argentine referee Arturo Andrés Iturralde against Honduras.
After being down in the scoreboard for a while, Chelato Uclés sent substitute player Tony Laing to the field, at a moment when a corner kick was going to be forwarded.
A doubtful penalty kick marked by the Chilean referee Gastón Edmundo, against Honduras; determined the scoreboard in favor of Yugoslavia (0-1).
Despite what happened in the last game, the Honduran people recognized the good work of Chelato Uclés and his team.
After the Spanish experience, the efforts of Chelato Uclés, for returning to a World Cup with the Honduras national team ended in failures.
The process started when, the sports press put pressure on the president of the Honduran football federation; Rafael Leonardo Callejas to hire Chelato, because he was considered to be a "good and cheap coach."
But Ucles’ new process with the national team did not start well, Honduras lost 3 out of 5 matches in the tournament, finishing fourth.
After this setback, Chelato was criticized harshly by the Honduran press, reason why on February 22, he said "from the beginning everything was lost".
Later on, Chelato said that he was ready to leave his post as the Honduras national football team coach, if the federation asked him to do so.
When the national team returned to Honduras from Panama, the directory of the federation under Callejas' control once again was pressed by a sector of the media, to force Chelato out.
Pavon took control of the national team and qualified it, to the Gold Cup, by getting positive results against Trinidad and Tobago and Martinique.
After the participation of Pavón in the Mexico's Gold Cup, the directory of the Federation named Bora Milutinović as the new Honduran coach.
When Milutinović was contacted in his residence by Rafael Leonardo Callejas; he recommended Raúl Martínez Sambulá and Juan Carlos Espinoza, to take over the Honduras national football team.
After the defeat suffered by Honduras at the hands of Guatemala (0-1): The sport press, the federation, and football fans panicked, they saw another failure on the horizon.
He made a series of line up changes, and played a preparation game against Haiti, then headed for San Pedro Sula to face the ‘Ticos.’—In the end; things did not go well for Chelato Ucles and his team.
For this competition Ucles called a mixture of young and experienced players like: Wilmer Velásquez, and Milton Núñez, as well as; Carlos Moran and Marvin Chávez among others.
In the 2005 Gold Cup played in the United States, Honduras beat teams like: Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica, arriving at semifinal instances.
[5] In 2010, Chelato Uclés was appointed national team manager of Belize in a bid to qualify for Brazil 2014.
[6] In May 2012, he was made technical director of Real España[7] for a second time, only to resign at the end of September 2012 citing internal problems and bad results.
